Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Cause of Death. | Diminution in 1909. | Excess in 1909. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Tuberculous Phthisis | 1,203 | - | ||
Phthisis | ||||
Tuberculous Meningitis | 199 | - | ||
Tuberculous Peritonitis | 244 | - | ||
Tabes Mesenterica | ||||
Other Tuberculous Diseases (including Scrofula) | 194 | - | ||
Cancer | - | 350 | ||
Premature Birth | 439 | - | ||
Diseases of Nervous system | 1,871 | - | ||
Diseases of Circulatory system1 | ||||
Diseases of Respiratory system | 1,125 | - | ||
Diseases of Digestive system | 1,042 | - | ||
Diseases of Urinary system | 61 | - | ||
Childbirth and Puerperal Septic Diseases | 37 | - | ||
Accident | 638 | - | ||
Homicide | 23 | - | ||
Suicide | 30 | - | ||
All other Causes | 1,048 | - | ||
Net diminution | 10,232 |
The following table shows the crude death-rates, and the death-rates corrected for differences in the age and sex constitution of the population of the several sanitary districts during the year 1909; the mean death-rates for the period 1904-8 are also shown for the purposes of comparison. Crude and corrected death-rates2 (All Causes), per 1,000 persons living, in the County of London, and the several sanitary districts.
Area. | Standard death-rate. | Factor for correction for age and sex distribution. | Crude death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Corrected death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Corrected comparative mortality figure (London, 1,000), | |||
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1904-8. | 1909. | 1904-8. | 1909. | 1904-8. | 1909. | |||
England and Wales | 18.19 | 1.0000 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Paddington | 17.04 | 1.0677 | 13.1 | 12.9 | 14.0 | 13.8 | 890 | 934 |
Kensington | 16.88 | 1.0778 | 13.7 | 13.3 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 943 | 973 |
Hammersmith | 17.47 | 1.0414 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 1.51 | 14.9 | 963 | 1,009 |
Fulham | 17.39 | 1.0462 | 14.0 | 12.0 | 14.6 | 12.6 | 930 | 851 |
Chelsea | 17.56 | 1.0361 | 15.3 | 14.4 | 15.9 | 15.0 | 1,009 | 1,015 |
Westminster, City of | 16.22 | 1.1217 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 14.7 | 14.7 | 938 | 999 |
St. Marylebone | 17.08 | 1.0652 | 15.2 | 14.6 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 1,029 | 1,055 |
Hampstead | 16.13 | 1.1280 | 9.3 | 8.9 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 668 | 683 |
St. Pancras | 17.40 | 1.0456 | 15.8 | 14.8 | 16.5 | 15.5 | 1,049 | 1,051 |
Islington | 17.51 | 1.0391 | 14.5 | 14.0 | 15.1 | 14.6 | 960 | 988 |
Stoke Newington | 17.43 | 1.0438 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 12.8 | 11.8 | 819 | 798 |
Hackney | 17.46 | 1.0420 | 13.8 | 12.6 | 14.4 | 13.1 | 916 | 891 |
Holborn | 16.90 | 1.0766 | 17.5 | 15.6 | 18.9 | 16.8 | 1,203 | 1,137 |
Finsbury | 17.57 | 1.0355 | 19.7 | 19.2 | 20.4 | 19.9 | 1,298 | 1,351 |
London, City of | 16.55 | 1.0993 | 17.2 | 20.3 | 18.9 | 22.3 | 1,204 | 1,511 |
Shored itch | 17.34 | 1.0493 | 19.5 | 19.0 | 20.5 | 20.0 | 1,305 | 1,353 |
Bethnal Green | 18.01 | 1.0102 | 18.3 | 16.8 | 18.4 | 17.0 | 1,175 | 1,151 |
Stepney | 17.41 | 1.0450 | 17.4 | 15.3 | 18.2 | 16.0 | 1,159 | 1,082 |
Poplar | 17.64 | 1.0314 | 17.3 | 16.3 | 17.9 | 16.8 | 1,137 | 1,136 |
South wark | 17.41 | 1.0450 | 18.2 | 16.8 | 19.0 | 17.5 | 1,211 | 1,187 |
Bermondsey | 17.76 | 1.0244 | 19.1 | 18.8 | 19.6 | 19.2 | 1,246 | 1,304 |
Lambeth | 17.63 | 1.0320 | 14.7 | 14.1 | 15.2 | 14.5 | 967 | 984 |
Battersea | 16.96 | 1.0728 | 13.6 | 13.0 | 14.5 | 14.0 | 927 | 947 |
Wandsworth | 17.25 | 1.0547 | 12.5 | 11.9 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 841 | 849 |
Camberwell | 17.54 | 1.0373 | 14.0 | 13.4 | 14.5 | 13.9 | 921 | 941 |
Deptford | 17.31 | 1.0511 | 14.9 | 13.6 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 995 | 971 |
Greenwich | 17.82 | 1.0210 | 13.3 | 12.2 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 865 | 844 |
Lewisham | 17.46 | 1.0420 | 11.6 | 10.3 | 12.1 | 10.8 | 772 | 730 |
Woolwich | 17.02 | 1.0690 | 12.8 | 11.9 | 13.7 | 12.8 | 874 | 864 |
1 For the purpose of comparison deaths from Infective Endocarditis are included under this heading.
2 All death-rates in this report relating to metropolitan sanitary areas are fully corrected for institutions—see
footnote (2), page 6.
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